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Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life

by: Lyman Abbott; Thomas Wallace Knox; Helen S. Campbell; Thomas Byrnes

Publication date: 2021-11-04

Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Crime, society, sociology, immigrants, city, mission, tenements, slums, social life

Language: English

LibriVox recording of Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life by Lyman Abbott; Thomas Wallace Knox; Helen S. Campbell; Thomas Byrnes.

Read in English by volunteer readers.

A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis, with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, sketches of life and character, humorous stories, touching home scenes, and tales of tender pathos, drawn from the bright and shady sides of the great under world of New York. By Mrs. Helen Campbell, City Missionary and Philanthropist; Col. Thomas W. Knox, Author and Journalist; and Supt. Thomas Byrnes, Chief of NY Police and Detectives. With highly interesting descriptions of little known phases of New York life; and an account of Detective Byrnes' thirty years' experiences and reminiscences written by himself from his private diary. With an introduction by Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., Pastor of Plymouth Church.

This volume aims to give scrupulously exact descriptions of life and scenes in the great metropolis under three different aspects: 1st, "As Seen by a Woman;" 2d, "As Seen by a Journalist;" 3d, "As Seen and Known by a Chief of the New York Detective Bureau." - Summary by Book title and preface

Published in 1897. The source text contains over 250 sketches and illustrations, which the listener is encouraged to enjoy along with the audio.

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Addeddate: 2021-11-04 23:38:20

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12.1M

01 - Publishers' Preface

40.9M

02 - Introduction by Lyman Abbott

40.0M

03 - Ch 1 - Sunday in Water Street — Homes of Revelry and Vice — Scenes in the Mission Room — Strange Experiences

40.5M

04 - Ch 2 - Christian Work in Water Street —The Story of Jeffrey McAuley's Life Told by Himself — A Career of Wickedness and Crime —The Mission Now

32.8M

05 - Ch 3 - Up Slaughter Alley, or Life in a Tenement-House — A Tour Through Homes of Misery, Want, and Woe — Drink's Doings

38.4M

06 - Ch 4 - New York Newsboys — Who They Are, Where They Come From, and How They Live — The Waifs and Strays of a Great City

15.1M

07 - Ch 5 - The One Hundred Thousand Little Laborers of New York — Child Workers — Their Homes and Daily Life

32.3M

08 - Ch 6 - Child-Life in the Slums — Homeless Street Boys, Gutter-Snipes and Dock Rats — The Autobiography of a Daybreak Boy

31.7M

09 - Ch 7 - The Open Doors of Mercy — The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children — Brutes in Human Form — The Demon of Drink — Rescue Work

45.1M

10 - Ch 8 - Mission Work in Tough Places — Seeking to Save — A Leaf from the Experience of an All-Night Missionary — Rescue Work in the Slums

31.2M

11 - Ch 9 - The Slums by Night — The Underworld of New York — Life and Scenes in the Dens of Infamy and Crime — Night Refuges for Women — Fast Life — Christian Work Among Outcasts

39.2M

12 - Ch 10 - Night Mission Work — New York Streets After Dark — Rescue Work Among the Fallen and Depraved — Searching for the Lost — An All-Night Missionary's Experience

12.9M

13 - Ch 11 - Gospel Work in the Slums — An All-Night Missionary's Life — A Midnight Curbstone Meeting — Up Shinbone Alley

46.5M

14 - Ch 12 - Shop-Girls and Working Women —The Great Army of New York Poor — Life Under the Great Bridge — The Bitter Cry of New York

40.4M

15 - Ch 13 - Hospital Life in New York — A Tour Through the Wards of Old Bellevue — Affecting Scenes — The Morgue and Its Silent Occupants

24.1M

16 - Ch 14 - Flower Missions and the Fresh Air Fund — The Distribution of Flowers Among the Sick and Poor — Anecdotes and Incidents

24.6M

17 - Ch 15 - A Day in a Free Dispensary — Relieving the Suffering Poor — Missionsary Nurses and Their Work — A Touching Story

29.3M

18 - Ch 16 - Life Behind the Bars — A Visit to the Tombs — Scenes Within Prison Walls — Rays of Light on a Dark Picture

24.5M

19 - Ch 17 - Lurking Places of Sin — Face to Face with Crime — Cellar Haunts and Underground Resorts of Criminals — The Story of Jim, an Ex-Convict

40.4M

20 - Ch 18 - Life on Blackwell's Island — The Dregs of a Great City — Where Criminals, Paupers, and Lunatics are Cared For — A Convict's Daily Life — "Drink's Our Curse"

27.2M

21 - Ch 19 - Heavenly Charities — Sister Irene's Mysterious Basket — Homes for Foundlings and Little Waifs

18.0M

22 - Ch 20 - Italian Life in New York — Scenes in the Great Bend in Mulberry Street — Homes of Filth and Squalor

16.0M

23 - Ch 21 - Shantytown and Its Dwellers — Life Among New York Squatters — Characteristic Scenes and Incidents

17.9M

24 - Ch 22 - Underground Life in New York — Cellar and Shed Lodgings — Dens of the Viscious and Depraved — Startling Scenes

31.3M

25 - Ch 23 - Jack Ashore — An Easy Prey for Land-Sharks and Sharpers — Life on the "St. Mary's" and at the Sailors' Snug Harbor

29.7M

26 - Ch 24 - Street Life — The Bowery by Day and by Night — Life in Baxter and Chatham Streets

30.3M

27 - Ch 25 - Training-Schools of Crime — Drink, the Root of Evil — Great Responsibility of the Liquor Traffic for Crime — Plain Facts and Startling Statements

40.3M

28 - Ch 26 - The Police Department of New York — The Detective Force and Its Work — Shadows and Shadowing — Sleuth-Hounds of the Law

34.1M

29 - Ch 27 - Fire! Fire! — The Life of a New York Fireman — The School of Instruction and the Live-Saving Corps

45.6M

30 - Ch 28 - The Chinese Quarter of New York — Behind the Scenes in Chinatown — "John" and His Curious Ways — A Night Visit to an Opium Joint

22.0M

31 - Ch 29 - The Spider and the Fly — Mock Auctions, Bogus Horse Sales and Other Traps for the Unwary — Personal Experiences

32.2M

32 - Ch 30 - The Beggars of New York — Tramps, Cheats, Humbugs, and Frauds — Interesting Personal Experiences — Victims from the Country

23.4M

33 - Ch 31 - "Up the Spout"— Pawn-Brokers and Their Ways — A Visit to the Shop of "My Uncle" — Personal Experiences

23.4M

34 - Ch 32 - Street Venders and Sidewalk Merchants — How Skin Games and Petty Swindles are Played — "Beatin' the Angels for Lyin'''

29.9M

35 - Ch 33 - Gamblers and Gambling — A Midnight Visit to Gambling-Houses of High and Low Degree — A Glimpse Behind the Scenes

17.4M

36 - Ch 34 - Low Lodging-Houses of New York — Places that Foster Crime and Harbor Criminals — Dens of Thieves

29.1M

37 - Ch 35 - Scientific Burglers and Expert Cracksmen — How Bank Vaults and Safes are Opened and Robbed — The Tools, Plans, Operations, and Leaders of Highly-Bred Criminals

15.7M

38 - Ch 36 - Bank Sneak-Thieves and Their Characteristics — Plots and Schemes for Robbing Moneyed Institutions — A Daring Lot of Rogues

17.8M

39 - Ch 37 - Common Housebreakers — Thieves Who Laugh at Locks and Bolts — Receivers of Stolen Goods — How a "Fence" Is Conducted

13.1M

40 - Ch 38 - The Rogues' Gallery — Why Thieves Are Photographed — Tell-Tale Signs — Peculiarities of Criminals

25.8M

41 - Ch 39 - Cunning Shoplifters and Skillful Pickpockets — Female Operators and How They Work — Yielding to Sudden Temptations

19.1M

42 - Ch 40 - Forgers and Their Methods — Wily Devices and Brainy Schemes of a Dangerous Class — Tricks on Banks — How Business Men Are Defrauded

15.2M

43 - Ch 41 - Frauds Exposed — Accomplished Adventurers and Fashionable Adventuresses — People Who Live by Their Wits — Getting a Living by Hook or by Crook

23.3M

44 - Ch 42 - Sharpers, Confidence-Men and Bunco-Steerers — Wide Open Traps —Tricks of "Sawdust" and "Green-Goods" Dealers

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6.1M

01 - Publishers' Preface

20.5M

02 - Introduction by Lyman Abbott

20.0M

03 - Ch 1 - Sunday in Water Street — Homes of Revelry and Vice — Scenes in the Mission Room — Strange Experiences

20.3M

04 - Ch 2 - Christian Work in Water Street —The Story of Jeffrey McAuley's Life Told by Himself — A Career of Wickedness and Crime —The Mission Now

16.4M

05 - Ch 3 - Up Slaughter Alley, or Life in a Tenement-House — A Tour Through Homes of Misery, Want, and Woe — Drink's Doings

19.2M

06 - Ch 4 - New York Newsboys — Who They Are, Where They Come From, and How They Live — The Waifs and Strays of a Great City

7.5M

07 - Ch 5 - The One Hundred Thousand Little Laborers of New York — Child Workers — Their Homes and Daily Life

16.2M

08 - Ch 6 - Child-Life in the Slums — Homeless Street Boys, Gutter-Snipes and Dock Rats — The Autobiography of a Daybreak Boy

15.9M

09 - Ch 7 - The Open Doors of Mercy — The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children — Brutes in Human Form — The Demon of Drink — Rescue Work

22.6M

10 - Ch 8 - Mission Work in Tough Places — Seeking to Save — A Leaf from the Experience of an All-Night Missionary — Rescue Work in the Slums

15.6M

11 - Ch 9 - The Slums by Night — The Underworld of New York — Life and Scenes in the Dens of Infamy and Crime — Night Refuges for Women — Fast Life — Christian Work Among Outcasts

19.6M

12 - Ch 10 - Night Mission Work — New York Streets After Dark — Rescue Work Among the Fallen and Depraved — Searching for the Lost — An All-Night Missionary's Experience

6.4M

13 - Ch 11 - Gospel Work in the Slums — An All-Night Missionary's Life — A Midnight Curbstone Meeting — Up Shinbone Alley

23.3M

14 - Ch 12 - Shop-Girls and Working Women —The Great Army of New York Poor — Life Under the Great Bridge — The Bitter Cry of New York

20.2M

15 - Ch 13 - Hospital Life in New York — A Tour Through the Wards of Old Bellevue — Affecting Scenes — The Morgue and Its Silent Occupants

12.1M

16 - Ch 14 - Flower Missions and the Fresh Air Fund — The Distribution of Flowers Among the Sick and Poor — Anecdotes and Incidents

12.3M

17 - Ch 15 - A Day in a Free Dispensary — Relieving the Suffering Poor — Missionsary Nurses and Their Work — A Touching Story

14.7M

18 - Ch 16 - Life Behind the Bars — A Visit to the Tombs — Scenes Within Prison Walls — Rays of Light on a Dark Picture

12.3M

19 - Ch 17 - Lurking Places of Sin — Face to Face with Crime — Cellar Haunts and Underground Resorts of Criminals — The Story of Jim, an Ex-Convict

20.2M

20 - Ch 18 - Life on Blackwell's Island — The Dregs of a Great City — Where Criminals, Paupers, and Lunatics are Cared For — A Convict's Daily Life — "Drink's Our Curse"

13.6M

21 - Ch 19 - Heavenly Charities — Sister Irene's Mysterious Basket — Homes for Foundlings and Little Waifs

9.0M

22 - Ch 20 - Italian Life in New York — Scenes in the Great Bend in Mulberry Street — Homes of Filth and Squalor

8.0M

23 - Ch 21 - Shantytown and Its Dwellers — Life Among New York Squatters — Characteristic Scenes and Incidents

8.9M

24 - Ch 22 - Underground Life in New York — Cellar and Shed Lodgings — Dens of the Viscious and Depraved — Startling Scenes

15.7M

25 - Ch 23 - Jack Ashore — An Easy Prey for Land-Sharks and Sharpers — Life on the "St. Mary's" and at the Sailors' Snug Harbor

14.9M

26 - Ch 24 - Street Life — The Bowery by Day and by Night — Life in Baxter and Chatham Streets

15.1M

27 - Ch 25 - Training-Schools of Crime — Drink, the Root of Evil — Great Responsibility of the Liquor Traffic for Crime — Plain Facts and Startling Statements

20.2M

28 - Ch 26 - The Police Department of New York — The Detective Force and Its Work — Shadows and Shadowing — Sleuth-Hounds of the Law

17.1M

29 - Ch 27 - Fire! Fire! — The Life of a New York Fireman — The School of Instruction and the Live-Saving Corps

22.8M

30 - Ch 28 - The Chinese Quarter of New York — Behind the Scenes in Chinatown — "John" and His Curious Ways — A Night Visit to an Opium Joint

11.0M

31 - Ch 29 - The Spider and the Fly — Mock Auctions, Bogus Horse Sales and Other Traps for the Unwary — Personal Experiences

16.1M

32 - Ch 30 - The Beggars of New York — Tramps, Cheats, Humbugs, and Frauds — Interesting Personal Experiences — Victims from the Country

11.7M

33 - Ch 31 - "Up the Spout"— Pawn-Brokers and Their Ways — A Visit to the Shop of "My Uncle" — Personal Experiences

11.7M

34 - Ch 32 - Street Venders and Sidewalk Merchants — How Skin Games and Petty Swindles are Played — "Beatin' the Angels for Lyin'''

15.0M

35 - Ch 33 - Gamblers and Gambling — A Midnight Visit to Gambling-Houses of High and Low Degree — A Glimpse Behind the Scenes

8.7M

36 - Ch 34 - Low Lodging-Houses of New York — Places that Foster Crime and Harbor Criminals — Dens of Thieves

14.6M

37 - Ch 35 - Scientific Burglers and Expert Cracksmen — How Bank Vaults and Safes are Opened and Robbed — The Tools, Plans, Operations, and Leaders of Highly-Bred Criminals

7.9M

38 - Ch 36 - Bank Sneak-Thieves and Their Characteristics — Plots and Schemes for Robbing Moneyed Institutions — A Daring Lot of Rogues

8.9M

39 - Ch 37 - Common Housebreakers — Thieves Who Laugh at Locks and Bolts — Receivers of Stolen Goods — How a "Fence" Is Conducted

6.6M

40 - Ch 38 - The Rogues' Gallery — Why Thieves Are Photographed — Tell-Tale Signs — Peculiarities of Criminals

12.9M

41 - Ch 39 - Cunning Shoplifters and Skillful Pickpockets — Female Operators and How They Work — Yielding to Sudden Temptations

9.6M

42 - Ch 40 - Forgers and Their Methods — Wily Devices and Brainy Schemes of a Dangerous Class — Tricks on Banks — How Business Men Are Defrauded

7.6M

43 - Ch 41 - Frauds Exposed — Accomplished Adventurers and Fashionable Adventuresses — People Who Live by Their Wits — Getting a Living by Hook or by Crook

11.7M

44 - Ch 42 - Sharpers, Confidence-Men and Bunco-Steerers — Wide Open Traps —Tricks of "Sawdust" and "Green-Goods" Dealers

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10.2M

01 - Publishers' Preface

41.9M

02 - Introduction by Lyman Abbott

36.3M

03 - Ch 1 - Sunday in Water Street — Homes of Revelry and Vice — Scenes in the Mission Room — Strange Experiences

36.9M

04 - Ch 2 - Christian Work in Water Street —The Story of Jeffrey McAuley's Life Told by Himself — A Career of Wickedness and Crime —The Mission Now

30.0M

05 - Ch 3 - Up Slaughter Alley, or Life in a Tenement-House — A Tour Through Homes of Misery, Want, and Woe — Drink's Doings

31.3M

06 - Ch 4 - New York Newsboys — Who They Are, Where They Come From, and How They Live — The Waifs and Strays of a Great City

12.7M

07 - Ch 5 - The One Hundred Thousand Little Laborers of New York — Child Workers — Their Homes and Daily Life

21.7M

08 - Ch 6 - Child-Life in the Slums — Homeless Street Boys, Gutter-Snipes and Dock Rats — The Autobiography of a Daybreak Boy

21.3M

09 - Ch 7 - The Open Doors of Mercy — The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children — Brutes in Human Form — The Demon of Drink — Rescue Work

32.0M

10 - Ch 8 - Mission Work in Tough Places — Seeking to Save — A Leaf from the Experience of an All-Night Missionary — Rescue Work in the Slums

25.2M

11 - Ch 9 - The Slums by Night — The Underworld of New York — Life and Scenes in the Dens of Infamy and Crime — Night Refuges for Women — Fast Life — Christian Work Among Outcasts

34.3M

12 - Ch 10 - Night Mission Work — New York Streets After Dark — Rescue Work Among the Fallen and Depraved — Searching for the Lost — An All-Night Missionary's Experience

10.5M

13 - Ch 11 - Gospel Work in the Slums — An All-Night Missionary's Life — A Midnight Curbstone Meeting — Up Shinbone Alley

41.4M

14 - Ch 12 - Shop-Girls and Working Women —The Great Army of New York Poor — Life Under the Great Bridge — The Bitter Cry of New York

36.0M

15 - Ch 13 - Hospital Life in New York — A Tour Through the Wards of Old Bellevue — Affecting Scenes — The Morgue and Its Silent Occupants

19.5M

16 - Ch 14 - Flower Missions and the Fresh Air Fund — The Distribution of Flowers Among the Sick and Poor — Anecdotes and Incidents

20.9M

17 - Ch 15 - A Day in a Free Dispensary — Relieving the Suffering Poor — Missionsary Nurses and Their Work — A Touching Story

25.1M

18 - Ch 16 - Life Behind the Bars — A Visit to the Tombs — Scenes Within Prison Walls — Rays of Light on a Dark Picture

22.7M

19 - Ch 17 - Lurking Places of Sin — Face to Face with Crime — Cellar Haunts and Underground Resorts of Criminals — The Story of Jim, an Ex-Convict

32.8M

20 - Ch 18 - Life on Blackwell's Island — The Dregs of a Great City — Where Criminals, Paupers, and Lunatics are Cared For — A Convict's Daily Life — "Drink's Our Curse"

23.9M

21 - Ch 19 - Heavenly Charities — Sister Irene's Mysterious Basket — Homes for Foundlings and Little Waifs

17.3M

22 - Ch 20 - Italian Life in New York — Scenes in the Great Bend in Mulberry Street — Homes of Filth and Squalor

15.5M

23 - Ch 21 - Shantytown and Its Dwellers — Life Among New York Squatters — Characteristic Scenes and Incidents

17.2M

24 - Ch 22 - Underground Life in New York — Cellar and Shed Lodgings — Dens of the Viscious and Depraved — Startling Scenes

26.7M

25 - Ch 23 - Jack Ashore — An Easy Prey for Land-Sharks and Sharpers — Life on the "St. Mary's" and at the Sailors' Snug Harbor

30.8M

26 - Ch 24 - Street Life — The Bowery by Day and by Night — Life in Baxter and Chatham Streets

31.7M

27 - Ch 25 - Training-Schools of Crime — Drink, the Root of Evil — Great Responsibility of the Liquor Traffic for Crime — Plain Facts and Startling Statements

29.5M

28 - Ch 26 - The Police Department of New York — The Detective Force and Its Work — Shadows and Shadowing — Sleuth-Hounds of the Law

35.5M

29 - Ch 27 - Fire! Fire! — The Life of a New York Fireman — The School of Instruction and the Live-Saving Corps

46.3M

30 - Ch 28 - The Chinese Quarter of New York — Behind the Scenes in Chinatown — "John" and His Curious Ways — A Night Visit to an Opium Joint

21.3M

31 - Ch 29 - The Spider and the Fly — Mock Auctions, Bogus Horse Sales and Other Traps for the Unwary — Personal Experiences

31.7M

32 - Ch 30 - The Beggars of New York — Tramps, Cheats, Humbugs, and Frauds — Interesting Personal Experiences — Victims from the Country

22.9M

33 - Ch 31 - "Up the Spout"— Pawn-Brokers and Their Ways — A Visit to the Shop of "My Uncle" — Personal Experiences

22.5M

34 - Ch 32 - Street Venders and Sidewalk Merchants — How Skin Games and Petty Swindles are Played — "Beatin' the Angels for Lyin'''

28.9M

35 - Ch 33 - Gamblers and Gambling — A Midnight Visit to Gambling-Houses of High and Low Degree — A Glimpse Behind the Scenes

16.4M

36 - Ch 34 - Low Lodging-Houses of New York — Places that Foster Crime and Harbor Criminals — Dens of Thieves

23.9M

37 - Ch 35 - Scientific Burglers and Expert Cracksmen — How Bank Vaults and Safes are Opened and Robbed — The Tools, Plans, Operations, and Leaders of Highly-Bred Criminals

13.1M

38 - Ch 36 - Bank Sneak-Thieves and Their Characteristics — Plots and Schemes for Robbing Moneyed Institutions — A Daring Lot of Rogues

15.3M

39 - Ch 37 - Common Housebreakers — Thieves Who Laugh at Locks and Bolts — Receivers of Stolen Goods — How a "Fence" Is Conducted

12.0M

40 - Ch 38 - The Rogues' Gallery — Why Thieves Are Photographed — Tell-Tale Signs — Peculiarities of Criminals

19.0M

41 - Ch 39 - Cunning Shoplifters and Skillful Pickpockets — Female Operators and How They Work — Yielding to Sudden Temptations

20.0M

42 - Ch 40 - Forgers and Their Methods — Wily Devices and Brainy Schemes of a Dangerous Class — Tricks on Banks — How Business Men Are Defrauded

14.6M

43 - Ch 41 - Frauds Exposed — Accomplished Adventurers and Fashionable Adventuresses — People Who Live by Their Wits — Getting a Living by Hook or by Crook

20.6M

44 - Ch 42 - Sharpers, Confidence-Men and Bunco-Steerers — Wide Open Traps —Tricks of "Sawdust" and "Green-Goods" Dealers

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